Event

Smackhead

Written by: Nastasia Pappas-Kemps
Director/Dramaturg: Amanda Goldberg

Performers: Cleopatra Boudreau, Skyler Clark and Simon Pelletier

Stage Manager/Sound Designer: Cecilia-Marie Macdonald
Set/Lighting Designer: Zoe Roux
Assistant Set Designer/Projection Designer: Aurora Torok
Costume Designer: Elizabeth Chuprun
Social Media and Marketing Coordinator: Emelia Hellman
Assistant Production Manager: Kenny Streule

Smackhead is about a recovering heroin addict, Ramona. She has taken it upon herself to advocate for the removal of morphine from hospitals across Canada, beginning with Sick Kids hospital in Toronto, where she is completing her residency as a paediatric nurse. It is there that she meets Faith, a young girl with uterine cancer, hellbent on completing her final cinematic masterpiece: a complete recreation of the hit movie musical, Singin in the Rain. It is through Faith that Ramona is finally able to confront and face her demons, beginning with a re-examination of her past love, her drug dealer, Max Foster.